قراءة كتاب The Seat of Empire
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WHITE BEAR LAKE.
THE
SEAT OF EMPIRE.
BY
SEAT OF EMPIRE.
BY
CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN,
"CARLETON."
"CARLETON."
"I now believe that the ultimate last seat of government on this great continent will be found somewhere within a circle or radius not very far from the spot on which I stand, at the head of navigation on the Mississippi River."
W. H. Seward, Speech at St. Paul, 1860.
BOSTON:
FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO.
1870.
FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO.
1870.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by
CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co.,
Cambridge.
Cambridge.
TO
JOHN GREGORY SMITH,
GOVERNOR OF VERMONT DURING THE REBELLION,
WHOM I FIRST SAW TENDERLY CARING FOR THE SICK AND
WOUNDED IN THE HOSPITALS OF FREDERICKSBURG, AND
THROUGH WHOSE ENERGY AND PERSEVERANCE
ONE OF THE GREATEST ENTERPRISES OF
THE PRESENT CENTURY HAS BEEN
SUCCESSFULLY INAUGURATED,
WOUNDED IN THE HOSPITALS OF FREDERICKSBURG, AND
THROUGH WHOSE ENERGY AND PERSEVERANCE
ONE OF THE GREATEST ENTERPRISES OF
THE PRESENT CENTURY HAS BEEN
SUCCESSFULLY INAUGURATED,
IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
FROM CHICAGO TO MINNEAPOLIS.
CHAPTER II.
ST. CLOUD AND BEYOND.
| St. Cloud.—Our Party.—First Night in Camp.—A Midnight Thunder-Storm.—Sunday in Camp.—Up the Sauk Valley.—White Bear Lake.—Catching a Turtle.—Lightning Lake.—Second Sabbath in Camp.—The River Systems of the Northwest—Elevations across the Continent.—The Future | 25 |
CHAPTER III.
THE RED RIVER COUNTRY.
| Down the Valley of the Red River.—Breckenridge.—Fort Abercrombie.—Climate.—Winters at Winnipeg.—Burlington.—The Emigrant.—Father Genin.—Mackenzie.—Harman.—Sir John Richardson.—Captain Palliser.—Father De Smet.—Winters | 51 |
CHAPTER IV.
THE EMPIRE OF THE NORTHWEST.
| Winnipeggers.—Ride over the Prairie.—Dakota City.—Georgetown.—Hudson Bay Company Teams.—Parting with our Friends.—The 43d Parallel.—Dakota.—Wyoming.—Montana.—Idaho.—Oregon.—Washington.—British Columbia.—Distances.—Fisheries of the Pacific.—Mr. Seward's Speech | 77 |
CHAPTER V.
THE FRONTIER.
| Bottineau.—The Leaf Hills.—A Ride over the Plain.—The Park Region.—Settlers.—How they kept the Fourth of July.—Chippewa Indians.—Rush Lake.—A Serenade on the Prairie.—German Pioneers.—Otter-Tail Lake | 109 |
CHAPTER VI.
ROUND THE CAMP-FIRE.
| Noon Lunch.—Toasting Pork.—A Montana Dutchman.—Emigrant Trains.—Camping at Night—Wheat of Minnesota.—The State in 1849.—A Word to Young Men.—Boys once more.—Our Last Camp-Fire | 123 |
CHAPTER VII.
IN THE FOREST.
| Down-Easters.—The Eden of Lumbermen.—Country East of the Mississippi.—The Climate of the Forest |
